{"id":21592,"date":"2016-05-03T14:20:12","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T21:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=21592"},"modified":"2016-05-03T14:20:12","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T21:20:12","slug":"cicadas-with-john-oliver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/03\/cicadas-with-john-oliver\/","title":{"rendered":"Cicadas with John Oliver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">There is so much going on in the Republican quest for power, about which the term horrific is an understatement, that we need to step back once in a while and enjoy a smile, so I have one to share today.&#160; It was a big cicada year in 1999, but either Portland is not a big Cicada town, or there just weren\u2019t many in my neighborhood.&#160; Seventeen years have passed and John Oliver welcomes them back.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Oliver\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Oliver\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Oliver.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"381\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Apparently, it&#8217;s going to be a big summer for cicadas, whose unusually long reproductive cycle means the ones emerging this summer were conceived in 1999. Cicadas won&#8217;t be here for long\u2014two to six weeks on average. But if they&#8217;re anything like humans, they\u2019re going to need some catching up on what they missed while they were gestating. And Last Week Tonight&#8217;s host John Oliver is here to help bring them up to speed.<\/p>\n<p>In a funny video made directly for YouTube, Oliver divulges that, \u201cWe voted in second President Bush by a narrow margin, and rejected a third President Bush by an enormous margin.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>In 1999, the internet was still pretty much in its infancy, and &quot;scream[ed] in agony as you dial[ed] into it,&quot; recalled Oliver, who also described YouTube, which came into existence in 2005 as \u201ca video distribution platform where teenagers become famous for playing video games and opening boxes.&quot;\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/video\/watch-john-oliver-sums-perfectly-sums-last-17-years\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/o5E7cG54VoA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I do remember the swarm of 1972,&#160; When this years class of cicadas returns in 2033,. I hope that conditions on earth will permit them to survive.&#160; To a large extent, that may well depend on how much voters reject Republicans this November,<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font color=\"#0000ff\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\">Save the planet!&#160; Dump your Republican!<\/font><\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is so much going on in the Republican quest for power, about which the term horrific is an understatement, that we need to step back once in a while and enjoy a smile, so I have one to share today.&#160; It was a big cicada year in 1999, but either Portland is not a <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/03\/cicadas-with-john-oliver\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}